Winter sky rising

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Winter sky rising in the southeast on January 9, 2021, from Alberta, Canada. The constellation of Orion is at centre with blue-white Sirius in Canis Major below and reddish-yellow Aldebaran in Taurus above. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are at left. Procyon in Canis Minor is between the Castor-Pollux pair and Sirius. Bright star clusters flank the scene, with the Pleiades (M45) at top and the Beehive cluster (M44) in Cancer at far left. Several other smaller star clusters in and along the Milky Way are also visible.

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